[BLOG] Some Monday links

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• Architectuul looks back at some highlights from 2019.


• Bad Astronomy looks at the gas cloud, red and green, of RCW 120.


• Crooked Timber looks at the dynamics of identity politics, here.


• Bruce Dorminey notes a NASA statement about the importance of understanding dust dynamics in other solar systems to find Earth analogues.


• Far Outliers looks at the problems pacifying the Chesapeake Bay area in 1813, here.


• Gizmodo looks at the most popular Wikipedia articles for the year 2019.


• io9 shares a video of images from a 1995 Akira cyberpunk computer game that never got finished.


• JSTOR Daily looks at how the United States tried to "civilize" the Inupiat of Alaska by giving them reindeer herds.


• Language Hat links to an online atlas of Scots dialects.


• Language Log reports on a 12th century Sanskrit inscription that testifies to the presence of Muslims in Bengal at that point.


• Marginal Revolution notes how much Tuvalu depends on revenue from its .tv Internet domain.


• Drew Rowsome looks at the Duncan Ralston horror novel Salvage, set in small-town Canada.


• The Russian Demographics Blog looks at the strong relationship between wealth and life expectancy in France.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel notes that, in a hypothetical supernova, all life on an Earth-like planet would be boiled alive by neutrinos.


• Strange Maps links to a graphic interface that translates a word into all the languages of Europe.


• Understanding Society looks at the structures of high-reliability organizations.


• Window on Eurasia shares a suggestion that Homer Simpson is actually the US' version of Russia's Ivan the Fool.